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2. Where were regulators ? They are supposed to watch and warn. 3. Can't wait to see how many people yanked their money, told others to, and shorted the stock. 4. Will the number of emps that aren't paid this week lead to a multiple of that number not being paid in 2 weeks ?
Huge day in the Bloomberg newsroom! We dropped the periods from US and UK.
What's that thing we used to say on here about Renaissance paintings?
there it is :)
*MUSK LETTER SAYS PROPOSAL CONTINGENT ON TRIAL BEING ADJOURNED
This story is incredible. The Comic Con of knitting -- a conference known as "Stitches" that has been running for 30 years -- suddenly disappeared overnight with no explanation
Honestly iconic for a woman head of state to be like “you know what — I think I’m done now.” More people should know their limits!
"The source of funds for the winning bid in Melania Trump’s first NFT auction appears to be the creators of the project themselves."
"Never go with a hippie to a second location"
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Jack Dorsey—Twitter founder, Block CEO, and Elon Musk buddy—is gazing into the future with laser eyes, and he wants you to follow him trib.al/qxyxA1M
*TWITTER EXECUTIVES ROBIN WHEELER, YOEL ROTH ARE DEPARTING
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NEW: Multiple Twitter sources say Yoel Roth is leaving the company.
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matt these tweets are nice but they don't get you out of an emergency friday edition
SOME NEWS: the guest editor for this year's Best American Food Writing is Sohla El-Waylly harpercollins.com/products/best-
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Musk REALLY didn't wanna go to Delaware
I am begging you, please stop hyphenating your -ly adverbs
Big scoop: Amazon is pausing construction on HQ2
I think they should get a little Newsie in a pageboy cap to run outside and yell the news right from the courthouse
“I was crying over an apartment and considering moving to Boston.”
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"Screw this city," one New York renter vented. One-fifth of new Manhattan leases are signed after bidding wars, prices are at record highs and vacancies are low. July and Aug are peak rental season but some agents are starting to see demand ease slightly. bloomberg.com/news/articles/
The longform tweets are so bad and had to read, they genuinely look like screeds
Chipotle says they only have a few weeks' worth of avocados left... bloomberg.com/news/articles/
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This is the London Metal Exchange, where everyone is a bit flustered about nickel
You have to hand it to New York Magazine: they set the discourse
FCC: no more auto warranty robocalls
One of FTX's auditors was headquartered in.....the metaverse
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Fun fact: headlines on the terminal are limited to 64 characters so this is not nothing
I am everyone’s editor on this here website
he's tweeting through it
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Twitter has had a massive drop in revenue, due to activist groups pressuring advertisers, even though nothing has changed with content moderation and we did everything we could to appease the activists.
Extremely messed up! They’re trying to destroy free speech in America.
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Multiple advertisers have confirmed they are pausing spending while they see what direction Elon Musk takes with the platform.
"The growing exodus of advertisers comes amid concerns Musk will scale back misinformation and security protections on the platform."
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That Finnish parliament font tho bloomberg.com/news/articles/
just brutal
“Our hope was to be able to support FTX’s customers to provide liquidity, but the issues are beyond our control or ability to help,” Binance said in a statement.
"SpaceX was awarded $2.2 billion and $2.8 billion in federal contracts in 2021 and 2022, respectively, the majority of which came from NASA, according to public records." theinformation.com/articles/insid
Surely someone is writing a big 'ol book about McKinsey, right? are you busy or can I please assign this to you?
Something I have never understood is how all these DTC brands have used "10,000-person waiting list" and "sold out 4x" as hype copy in Instagram ads for their products... Why are you telling me you're bad at managing your supply chain!?!?
BIG SCOOP from
SVB:
--got multiple MRA/MRIAs (matters requiring [immediate] attention) from the SF Fed about poor interest-rate risk management
--had no chief risk officer for most of last year
Now there's a headline
*NYC AIR QUALITY IMPROVES TO 'UNHEALTHY'
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you underestimate the appetite for money stuff
*FORMER THERANOS PRESIDENT SUNNY BALWANI FOUND GUILTY OF FRAUD
Now that Pete Davidson is going "to space" can we all please admit that it's not real space, it's just next to space? Thanks.
Do we say "credit SWISS" or "credit SWEESS"? me, I say the latter but I'm a monster
SHERYL SANDBERG DATED BOBBY KOTICK?!?!?!?!
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this is a holy shit story wsj.com/articles/sandb
Elon Musk is financing part of his Twitter takeover bid on his significant untaxed fortune, which raises a lot of questions about what we in the U.S. consider "income" and how we tax it
"More than 90% of his savings vanished in a few days when TerraUSD lost its peg to the dollar."
Has anyone been outside lately? All the children are dressed like it's the 90s. It's awful, but also heartwarming. No one is trying to look hot.
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Bob Iger didn't come back to play
“Roger died on Friday. He was a hundred and one. But longevity was actually quite low on his list of accomplishments.”
Wait till Peter Thiel gets a load of this
It's a big American bank lovefest and they're all holding hands and supporting each other! Awww
"Bankman-Fried is an investor in Semafor."
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Scoop: Most of FTX legal and compliance teams have quit semafor.com/article/11/09/ @lizrhoffman @SaacksAttack
China is locking down Shenzhen, which is where they manufacture ...checks notes.... everything
No more Bloomberg Terminal access in Russia and Belarus
"The Tesla CEO’s wealth has been cut in half from its $340 billion peak partly due to his Twitter purchase"
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Anyway, I feel bad for all the small business owners (largely women) who've lost thousands of dollars in registration fees!!!!
easily the best reason to subscribe yet
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Just found out you can track Russian oligarch yachts on the terminal. Looks like the president of Lukoil's just rounded the tip of Italy.
There it is
*ALEX JONES MUST PAY $965 MILLION FOR SANDY HOOK LIES
Is Anna Wintour's lunch really getting a day 5, we must be desperate
"Elon Musk is not doing a pump and dump! Elon Musk is not interested in a quick and easy nine-figure profit, that is absurd."
*DELAWARE JUDGE ALLOWS TWITTER TO EXPEDITE LAWSUIT AGAINST MUSK
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Webex crashed and Jay stopped talking for a bit
Air taxis are supposed to be certified by the FAA as soon as 2024. There's just one problem: the test models keep crashing and catching on fire
This strikes me as....very bad
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One in five Americans say they’ve used buy now, pay later apps to buy groceries trib.al/aa4ReRG
🚨🚨🚨MONEY STUFF: EMERGENCY WEEKEND EDITION
*RUSSIA PASSES IRAN TO BECOME WORLD'S MOST SANCTIONED NATION
Uh, incredible word choice here:
“The board decided in the round, balancing everything up, that for the next phase of this singularly most important and complicated transaction, Sergio would be the preferred executioner.”
"Visitors are greeted by a digital portrait of Jamie Dimon and a roaming tiger." bloomberg.com/news/articles/
There is a model in the new Banana Republic campaign whose look I simultaneously covet and yet can only describe as “Ghislaine chic” and it is so deeply confusing to me
“It turned out that one of the biggest risks to our business model was catering to a very tightly knit group of investors who exhibit herd-like mentalities,” on.ft.com/426zkSm
This is incorrect. He was talking about SEC decree over his Tesla tweets. twitter.com/themaxburns/st
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The University of Texas is coming for Harvard’s milkshake
No one *prefers* to make these announcements during market hours...
This is it, this is why we get up in the afternoon
Just heard a girl at Sant Ambroeus call whole milk “real milk”
he claims he's written a lot about them but given that I still don't understand the kerfuffle so I don't think it's worked yet. This is all Matt is good for: helping ME personally understand bank stuff.
Eating a graham cracker and just realized I have no idea what graham is
Absolutely maddening story about the pay disparities in men's and women's basketball, with a real gut punch of a reminder that Brittney Griner was in Russia to supplement her WNBA paycheck
"It’s an Excel file full of the howling of ghosts and the shrieking of tortured souls. If you look too long at that spreadsheet, you will go insane."
"Meta’s big plan for the platform is to replace its guts with a TikTok-style recommendation engine, which, considering the raw material it will be working with, sounds like a rolling family reunion hosted in a chumbox."
“My life has not been ruined by having to write about Elon Musk on Saturdays” great see you tomorrow
Before it's all over, don't forget to send me your submissions for Best American Food Writing at silvia.killingsworth@gmail.com
good grief maybe they need to change the surveys!
"It raises the possibility that the apparent Democratic strength in Wisconsin and elsewhere is a mirage — an artifact of persistent and unaddressed biases in survey research."
